The building of the replica the New Belgica is located near Antwerp, which is a social project providing traineeship and motivating work for unemployed people. Currently it is expected that the boat will be completed by 2017 with a sailing tour. I will follow the building several times per year and will post photos in the New Belgica photo album.

Sunday, December 11, 2011

EN: I attended the polar sailing film festival Les Voiles Polaires. The venue was in the fantastic Oceanographic institute in Paris. Films included trips done by GNGL polar travel agency, the TARA arctic drifting for science and the premiere of the film of Thierry Robert about the attempt of polar adventurers Sébastien Roubinet and Rodolphe André to sail across the arctic Ocean last summer.